William J. Clinton Quotes

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
William J. Clinton

Life, Live, Mistakes

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.
William J. Clinton

Time, Hate, Stress

Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'
William J. Clinton

Work, Government, Business

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
William J. Clinton

Work, Politics, Good

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.
William J. Clinton

Control, Gun, Support

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
William J. Clinton

History, Government, Problems

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
William J. Clinton

Caring, Cruel, Promising

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
William J. Clinton

Good, Power, Government

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
William J. Clinton

Put, Wings, Eagle

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
William J. Clinton

Country, Ourselves, Families

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
William J. Clinton

Home, Freedom, Strong

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.
William J. Clinton

Hurt, Deep, Matter

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.
William J. Clinton

Education, Good, Ignorance

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
William J. Clinton

Education, Motivation, Economy

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
William J. Clinton

Memorial Day, Nothing, America

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.
William J. Clinton

President, Nobody, Listening

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
William J. Clinton

Children, Words, Teach

My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you're on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities - a 'we're all in it together' society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
William J. Clinton

Society, Live, Together

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
William J. Clinton

Work, Human, Living

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
William J. Clinton

Hope, Mine, Dull

I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.
William J. Clinton

Job, Sure, Miss

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.
William J. Clinton

Deep, Debt, Trapped

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
William J. Clinton

Strength, Wisdom, Values

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
William J. Clinton

Time, God, Respect

Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.
William J. Clinton

Hate, Learned, Often

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Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: August 19, 1946

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